The most surprising thing about Beady Eye's second album is the producer. Dave Sitek made a name for himself as the guitarist for the New York avant-garde pop group TV On The Radio. You'd say a 'proper lad' like Liam Gallagher would turn his nose up at Sitek's tricky antics. Still, the ex-Oasis singer admitted in an interview that he had worked fine with the American producer. Sitek therefore puts
… herself at the service of Beady Eye, which once again relives its predilection for British pop music from the late 1960s. Sometimes that works out remarkably well, like in the opener Flick Of The Finger, which is decorated with a sample of a spoken text, a bit like The Beatles did in I Am The Walrus. The ghosts of The Fab Four also emphatically wander around in the psychedelic Don't Brother Me. An old-fashioned sneer at brother Noel? Of course. That poison belonged to Oasis and now to Beady Eye, the group that remains most faithful to the old Oasis sound. Even a hip, American producer doesn't change that. (PdK)more
